Begleitprogramm - Wolf Biermann. Ein Lyriker und Liedermacher in Deutschland.

In the organizer's words:

Discourse program in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Berlin State Library

Biermann in Context

Accompanying the exhibition, the discussion series "Biermann in Context" will take place from September to November 2023. On five dates, journalist and literary critic Lothar Müller and alternating guests will look back on the era from the 1960s to the end of the GDR and the establishment of "German Unity" from the perspective of the year 2023. Contemporary witnesses and historians, authors and sociologists, cultural scholars and humanities scholars of different generations will have their say; cinematic time travels will introduce each round of talks.

Admission free, registration requested

September 6, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Biermann and cultural politics
"To the Old Comrades" (1962) in context.
with Volker Braun, Eva Geulen and Durs Grünbein

September 20, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Biermann and the Stasi
"Stasi Ballad" (1967) in context
with Marianne Birthler, Julia Franck and Philip Oltermann

October 4, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Biermann and the expatriation
"Ballad of the Prussian Icarus" (1976) in context
with, among others, Doris Liebermann and Steffen Mau

October 18, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Biermann and the West
"German Miserere" (1978) in context
with, among others, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Kai Sina

November 1, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Biermann and the Jews
"Great Song of the Exterminated Jewish People" (1994) in context
with, among others, Dmitrij Kapitelman and Annette Leo